Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA03903 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:50:52 GMT Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010217133259.0219e910@pop3.htcomp.net> X-Sender: mmills@pop3.htcomp.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:43:39 -0600 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Mark Mills <mmills@htcomp.net> Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution In-Reply-To: <3A8EC7AF.95BD4A91@pacbell.net> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010217113823.021498a0@pop3.htcomp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 10:49 AM 2/17/01 -0800, you wrote:
>But the idea of a memetic germ line is still a problem. Memory
>organization does not pass directly from person to person, while genes
>and chromosomes do pass directly from parent to child.
Maybe the term 'ontogenetic replicator' would make more sense? That's the
model I'm suggesting.
Once ontogeny starts, the organism begins memorizing. The memory
structures that can be replicated are memes. Consider the notion of an
'object-oriented database' with multiple levels of organization and the
ability to bootstrap itself. That's the model I have in mind. An
object-oriented datastructure that builds itself.
The fact that cellular replication uses source DNA does and memetics uses
sources itself does not change the parallel nature of the activity.
I think the recent publication of human genome findings supports this
objected oriented, bootstrapping datastructure concept. Both memes and
genes use it. The difference is their substrates.
>Thus, the phenotype-genotype distinction you make does not serve the
>same purpose in memetics as the similar distinction does in genetics.
What do you mean by this?
Mark
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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